A break from the building life

Hubby and I have decided we are long overdue for a holiday so finally we booked today a week away at the end of October. We are going to sunny Queensland to relax.

Something great to look forward to (and a quicker wait than the house finish too).

Furniture Shopping

Although there is still probably 6 months to go so a little premature to look for furniture I could resist looking while out shopping and luckily stumbled across a nice little shop with some great wooden furniture.

For the bedroom

For the rumpus room

Hanging in there

There has been no work on site for a week now. Our SS called on Friday to inform us that our brickie has been struck down ill. I was sick a few weeks ago so know that feeling so am hoping for a healthy recovery for our brickie and hopefully work can commence again next week. However also a bit disappointed we don't have a team so work could have continued while the one guy was sick. Oh well onwards and upwards.

Our SS also got back to us regarding the frame overhang in the garage and the post missing on the pillar. For the frame the are going to make another bit of timber to go under to support the overhang. This will be done when the guy comes back to do the eaves. For the pillar there are metal ties that have been put in the brick work that will be secured to the overhead beam. My SS said he'll also note it to get the frame inspector to look at it to give me piece of mind and if they say the post needs to go back then they will put it back in.

Now just to keep hoping for lots and lots of sunny weather and some great progress over the next coming weeks.

Not a lot of movement this past week

The scaffolding went up a week ago and we were very excited to see the commencment of the bricking of the first floor. Unfortunately there has been very little movement on site (sigh).

The only change I can see is that the bricking of the last remaining ground floor pillar has been done and there is a problem with that pillar!

Background, the pillar had not been done as they had to extend the conrete footing where this was to be placed. To do this they took down the support post (part of the frame) and did the concrete and were waiting for the concreting to dry before continuing.

The problem, they have now done the bricking for the pillar but forgot to reinstate the support post before doing the bricking (i.e. there is not support post in that pillar now.

I have raised the issue with my SS (he didn't know it had been removed) as I am concerned that the bricking won't take the load of the roof (hence why the support post was there). He is going to look at it with the brickie.

Scaffolding is going up

Today our scaffolding got delivered and the guys on site were hard at work setting it up and I think it should be finished tomorrow. I was also pleased to see that there was shade cloth us the full side of our neighbours house so it should be protected while they do our first floor bricking. I'm looking forward to seeing the fully bricked house in a few more weeks.

Brick work progressing

The weather has been better than forecast with dry weather through the day at least and the brick work is progressing along nicely. The ground floor is almost done and although I'm by no means an expert it looks like a good job to me!

The plumbing fit out has also been done and the concreters came back today and extended the slab for the rainwater tank.

Bricking

The bricking has started and slowly progressing. There is enough up now that we can start to see the look of the bricks.

What can I say.... I am SO glad that we upgraded our choice to these bricks. I am really happy with them (& so is hubby).

I also have to say that the bricky is doing a great job too!

Columns are to be bagged and painted in Wattyl Thunderbolt